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minus-squareFoxyFerengi@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 days agoI’m pretty sure the way Trump wrote the pardon for Jan 6th (extremely vaguely) means this guy will get a pardon.
minus-squaresanta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoHe wrote it to pardon future criminals? That sounds legal. /s
minus-squareFoxyFerengi@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-23 days agoIt is actually legal. We know he used the pardon in a corrupt way, but the pardon being upheld for people who haven’t gone through court yet has legal precedent dating back to the civil war.
minus-squaresanta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoI guess laws matters more when it works to advantage of party supported by conservative justices of SCOTUS.
I’m pretty sure the way Trump wrote the pardon for Jan 6th (extremely vaguely) means this guy will get a pardon.
He wrote it to pardon future criminals? That sounds legal. /s
It is actually legal. We know he used the pardon in a corrupt way, but the pardon being upheld for people who haven’t gone through court yet has legal precedent dating back to the civil war.
I guess laws matters more when it works to advantage of party supported by conservative justices of SCOTUS.